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General Psychology 1
General Psych information. History, the brain, conditioning, etc.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/02/2008

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Brainstem
Definition
Basic survival.
Breathing, heartrate, blood pressure.
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Cerebellum
Definition
Back, helps coordinate rapid movement.
Movement, balance, posture.
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Frontal Lobe
Definition
Planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality and other "higher cognitive functions" including behavior and emotions. Cognition and memory.
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Occipital Lobe
Definition
Visual information.
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
Primary sensory cortex. Processing sensory input. Touch, temperature, pressure, pain.
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Temporal Lobe
Definition
Distinguish between different sounds and smells.
Hearing and memory.
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Medulla
Definition
Relay station in brainstem. Cardiac Center. Respiratory center. Centers for cough, gag, swallow, vomit. Reflexes.
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Midbrain
Definition
Auditory and visual reflex centers. Basic movement.
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Pons
Definition
Relay station from medulla to higher cortical structures. Respiratory center. Reflexes.
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Limbic System
Definition
Contains:
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Emotions and Memory.
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Basal Ganglia
Definition
Initiation, direction of voluntary movement, balance and postural reflexes.
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Thalamus
Definition
Processing center of cerebral cortex. Regulates functional activity.
Movement, sensory processing.
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Hypothalamus
Definition
Regulates body temperature, endocrine function, "fight or flight".
Emotions, hunger, thirst.
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Hippocampus
Definition
Learning and Memory. Long term memory.
Part of Limbic System.
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Rene Descartes
Definition
Body over soul.
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Thomas Hobbes
Definition
Materialism -- "Nothing exists except matter and energy."
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John Locke
John Stuart Mill
Definition
Empiricism -- Everything is learned. EVERYTHING, experience.
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Immanuel Kant
Definition
Nativism -- All knowledge is inborn.
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Charles Darwin
Definition
Evolution/natural selection.
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Amygdala
Definition
Regulates emotion.
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